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blazonry. The principal quarterings are those of Acton of Iron 
Acton, and Tame of Fairford. Members of this family were 
sheriffs of Gloucestershire in 1294, 1303, and 1477, and Huntly 
of Boxwell is its present representative in this county. It may 
be remarked here that the arms given by Fuller, in his list of 
sheriffs belong to a very distinct family, long settled in his time 
at Bristol, and, as appears from the Visitation of 1621, in the 
Huntley pedigree should be corrected as follows: Arg. a fess sable 
in chief three pellets. 
“Here the section subdivided, the majority going on to the 
quarries at Furzen Leaze, in search of “tracks” on the Forest 
marble slabs, which were found in abundance: the minority to 
Preston church, to sketch the campanile for three bells, of elegant 
proportions and arrangement, so unusual as to be almost unique. 
“All arrived at the College in time for dinner, from which 
period their proceedings were precisely identified with those of 
the general meeting.” 
In the evening, papers were read by Mr. Brodie, “ On the Lias 
of Barrow-on-Sour, and the Inferior Oolite and Lias of Northamp- 
tonshire and Gloucestershire.” Mr. Lycett also read a paper, 
“On the Inferior Lias and Oolite of the Cotteswold Hills, com- 
pared with similar deposits on the coast of Yorkshire.” 
On August 25th a very small party, consisting of the President, 
the Rev. S. Lysons, and Mr. J. Jones, with Mr. — Lysons as a 
visitor, met at Beckford Inn to breakfast. 
As Dumbleton hill has become, through the Jabours of Buck- 
man and Strickland, classic ground to the Jurassic geologist a 
great increase in number was only waited for by the next train, 
but to no purpose. The time, however, was not ill spent in an 
inspection of the Church and Beckford Hall. 
The former presents many features of Norman architecture in 
a good state of preservation, which would lead us to place the 
date of its foundation in the reign of Stephen, the ornamentation 
and the legendary subjects represented in the tympanum of the 
doorway arches being precisely those described at Quennington, 
but more coarsely executed. 
Beckford Hall is a seat of a branch of the Worcestershire 
Wakemans, long settled here, of which the last Abbot of Tewkes- 
bury was a member. It is interesting from the fact that it does 
not appear to have been improved or added to since the period of 
its erection. In the cellars are some arches which probably 
formed part of a Priory founded here in the Saxon times, of which 
the revenues were estimated in the taxation of Pope Nicholas at 
£32. 16s.; and in the garden is a fine avenue of box trees. The 
thanks of the Club are due to Mr. Woodward, who now resides 
here, for his kindness, in anticipation of its visit, in providing 
vehicles to convey its members to Dumbleton. 
At the base of Dumbleton hill, apparently turned up in the 
